It's not just emails on webpages
Spammers don't all use webpages to get the emails, they have used and probably continue to use Registrar information.
Remember when you registered your domain name and you had to give them your email address?
Well, that is public record and available to anyone who wanted to look up your domain name. Now, there are registration services who say they provide more anonymity to your domain records, but it ofcourse comes with a price.
To be honest, it is my personal belief that if you have a domain name, you are at risk for email spoofing and other problems associated with that. It's happened to me ... and it's very prevailent right now with this horrid email worm and other viruses skipping across the network.
Getting on Email Blacklists is easy when you have a spammer spoofing your domain. It's happened to my firms domain. Found out one of our clients wasn't getting email because their mail server filters from some blacklists and somehow our domain ended up on one.
I am electing to use a Flash button for my email addresses from now on. The button will have the email address on it, but since it's a Flash .swf file, harvesters can't pick it up because the email is encoded in the graphic and the button.
Just one trick out of many...
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